Subj : Satellite Antenna
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : Spaceman Spiff
Date : Tue Aug 24 2004 09:38 am

  Re: Satellite Antenna
  By: Angus Mcleod to Spaceman Spiff on Tue Aug 24 2004 11:03 am

 >   Re: Satellite Antenna
 >   By: Spaceman Spiff to Angus Mcleod on Mon Aug 23 2004 21:27:00
 > 
 >  > http://science.nasa.gov/RealTime/JTrack/3D/JTrack3D.html
 >  > http://science.nasa.gov/realtime/JTrack/Spacecraft.html
 > 
 > Crashes my browser.  Really must install Java!
 > 
 >  > NOAA 12
 >  > NOAA 16
 >  > NOAA 17
 >  > NOAA 11
 >  > NOAA 14
 >  > NOAA 15
 > 
 > These are all nominally circular orbit, high-inclination birds with a Mean
 > Motion just over 14 so you can expect 4-5 passes a day.  Most of these will 
 > low-elevation passes.  I'd recommend you try building a simple, omni- antenn
 > such as the TR with or without a groundplane
 > 
 >         http://www.west.net/~jay/turnstile.html
 >         http://www.qsl.net/wb8erj/turnstile_antenna.htm
 > 
 > Or even a Lindenblad or a pair of Lindenblad antennas
 > 
 >         http://www.amsat.org/amsat/articles/w6shp/lindy.html
 > 
 > Sources are numerous in the literature and via Google.
 > 
Thanks Angus, I'll check out the links.
As far as JAVA, I downloaded the SUN java, works with both Internet Explorer
and my Mozilla Fire Fox Browsers. I have been using the Fire Fox a lot lately
and only use IE6 when I get a page that won't work with Fire Fox, Fire Fox is
alot faster than IE6 and resists a lot of the Pop up BS and Browser Hijacking
stuff.

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